Varmus to quit as Sloan-Kettering head
Former National Institutes of Health director and Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus will leave his post as president of New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center as soon as his successor is chosen.Image: Public Library of Science According to linkurl:__Science__,;http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/01/polymath-scient.html Varmus sent an email to his Sloan-Kettering colleagues this morning announcing his decision to step down. He wrote that he'd stay at the institution until

Jan 11, 2010
Former National Institutes of Health director and Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus will leave his post as president of New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center as soon as his successor is chosen.
According to linkurl:__Science__,;http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/01/polymath-scient.html Varmus sent an email to his Sloan-Kettering colleagues this morning announcing his decision to step down. He wrote that he'd stay at the institution until a successor is found, and that he'd continue to run his lab, which focuses on the molecular mechanisms of oncogenesis. Varmus shared the 1989 linkurl:Nobel Prize;http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1989/varmus-autobio.html in Physiology or Medicine for the identification of oncogenes, headed up the NIH from 1993 to 1999, and co-founded the Public Library of Science, an open access publishing group. More recently, Varmus has been advising President Barack Obama as a co-chair of the linkurl:Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.;http://www.ostp.gov/cs/pcast He has been the president of Sloan-Kettering since 2000....
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